Russians reduce activity Pokrovsk to reduce losses – defense forces

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1. Hmmm … Reduce activity to reduce losses. Maybe if they tried that on a larger scale … 🤔🤔🤔

2. If this is true, if, this might be a turning point in the war. We all know the story by now, Russia assaults some town or city, spends a year turning it into a mound of rubble with bones and rotten meat poking out. Now they might not be capable of that anymore, *If*

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4. He doesn’t want to send ethnic Russians from Moscow or St Petersburg into the grinder because he will end up falling out a window if his base rises up. Those boys are expected to come home and currently the plan seems to be to get all the undesirables killed. This may actually be the start of true , but I won’t hold my breath.

5. From the article it sounds more like they are taking a more methodical approach, not reducing actual invested resources.

   Just less random advances and more consolidation and building up the FOBs and logistics.

   A good sign that they aren’t overrunning the defenders, but not a turning point (yet)

6. Maybe they should just go back to their borders and save thousands of lives.

7. Now this is advanced cope.

8. This is pretty interesting, right now Ukraine is pretty clearly faltering in Pokrovsk. Any sound military decision would be that if you are capable, this would be the time to press your advantage. My guess would by that their infiltration tactics in the area, while effective in the short term, probably cost them a bunch of highly motivated and trained personnel. While the Russian army has a reputation for using poorly trained soldiers and sending them to their deaths, the infiltration tactics they have used necessarily require soldiers who are a cut above, ans can act independently.

   This could be analogous to the final year of WW1, where the German army managed to make extremely good use of Stormtrooper tactics, albeit with appalling casualties among a small corps of elite troops. They could replace them on paper, bur simply did not have the know how remaining to replicate success.

   If Russia has lost this edge, they have lost a major tactic that has propelled their success recently, and they are stuck with their older tactics, which even with Ukraines manpower shortage, they can counter fairly readily with their own domestic drone industry and tactics. This could be a case where at least temporarily Russia lost steam before Ukriane did

9. I thought this was about to fall- now they are quitting?

10. They will discover that if they leave Ukraine they will have no more losses. They should try that strategy

11. Yeah, that’s what happens when you mostly capture a city, military activity decreases

12. It’s called digging in. No army is always on the offensive, your soldiers need sleep, high buildings need to be fortified and supply lines secured. They’ll be back.

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